- Wed Nov 24 2004 Companies dig deep for ethics compliance
Multinational firms are spending more to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations but don't always know where the money's going.
Posted by Dinesh C. Sharma
- Thu Dec 15 2005 Compliance laws boosting IT budgets
Gartner says corporate governance, compliance laws are leading to higher IT spending by companies.
Posted by Dinesh C. Sharma
- Thu Jan 13 2000 PricewaterhouseCoopers takes stake in InterTrust
The Big Five consulting firm makes an equity investment of an undisclosed amount in the digital rights management firm.
Posted by Melanie Austria Farmer
- Mon Sep 11 2000 HP mulls $18 billion bid for PricewaterhouseCoopers arm
The computing giant says it is in talks to buy the consulting business of the Big Five accounting firm to strengthen its services arm, sending HP's shares down 3 percent.
Posted by Melanie Austria Farmer
- Mon Mar 31 2003 Deloitte Consulting stays put
The group will not separate from its parent firm, making the combined company stand out from other large audit firms that have clipped their consulting wings.
Posted by Ed Frauenheim
- Thu May 9 2002 IT consulting post-Enron
Terry Jost, a vice president at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, predicts that the controversy over conflict of interest will challenge IT consultants at the Big Five like never before.
Posted by Charles Cooper
- Tue Jul 30 2002 IBM grabs consulting giant for $3.5 billion
Big Blue agrees to buy PricewaterhouseCoopers' consulting arm for cash and stock, a deal that expands its already extensive services business.
Posted by Stephen Shankland
- Thu Mar 15 2001 Consultancy iXL hires several execs
iXL Enterprises named several new additions to its executive team as the battered Web consultancy continues to actively pursue and attract talent. Atlanta-based iXL said Jay Norman, a former partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers, will lead its financial services consulting practice. Sanjay Apte is also joining iXL as its senior information technology and engineering executive. Prior to iXL, Apte worked at Financial Fusion where he was vice president of professional services.
iXL also appointed Patrick Carter to lead its CRM (customer relationship management) practice. CRM software helps companies manage such things as their customer requests and marketing activities. Most recently, Carter was president of Targetbase Interactive and had also been a manager at Ernst & Young. iXL recently appointed former PwC partner Christopher Formant as its new president and CEO. Formant, who led PwC's global banking consulting practice, took over the spot that was held by iXL founder Bert Ellis.
Posted by Melanie Austria Farmer
- Thu Aug 31 2000 Net consultancies feeling heat of looming shakeout
Internet consulting companies, which peddle seasoned advice to chaotic e-commerce clients, are struggling through a crisis of their own.
Posted by Sam Ames and Melanie Austria Farmer
- Mon Nov 13 2000 HP misses earnings expectations, drops PwC bid
The computing giant posts earnings that fall far below analysts' estimates and ends discussions to buy the consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Posted by Melanie Austria Farmer
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